Redfield Apple

bare-root trees
Malus spp.
Fall.

Wolf River × Niedzwetzkyana. NY Stn, 1938.

One of the best and largest of the red-fleshed apples. Although usually considered too tart for eating out of hand, the medium-large fruit with opaque solid rusty-red skin is absolutely great in pies, makes wonderful jelly, and turns sauce and cider red. We love this apple.

Gained fame in the hard-cider world thanks to the wonderful single-variety Redfield cider and Redfield blends made by the late Terry Maloney of West County Cider. Very sharp and bitter in cidermakers’ lingo. (SG 1.052) Flesh is two-toned: deep pink fading to white around the core. The flowers are also two-toned, deep pink, tipped with small white lightning bolts. And the bronze-red foliage adds further interest all season.

Bears young, annually, and shows some insect resistance in our trials. One of the very first to bloom each year. Z3.

(Standard: 3–6' bare-root trees, semi-dwarf: 2½–5' bare-root trees)

Maine Grown.
ships in spring

7254 Redfield

A: 1 on standard rootstock
$36.00
C: 1 on M111 semi-dwarfing rootstock
$36.00